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I said I'd come back with the Chicago Style. Here are some academic things to read about slavery and the digital/data: Britt Rusert, “New World: The Impact of Digitization on the Study of Slavery,” American Literary History 29, no. 2 (May 1, 2017): 267–86
Vincent Brown, “Mapping a Slave Revolt Visualizing Spatial History through the Archives of Slavery,” Social Text 33, no. 4 125 (December 1, 2015): 134–41
Jennifer L. Morgan, “Partus Sequitur Ventrem: Law, Race, and Reproduction in Colonial Slavery,” Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism 22, no. 1 (55) (March 1, 2018): 1–17
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@SubanNurCooley First, articles. I use these in undergrad courses 100-400 lvl

Gray, Kishonna L. "Intersecting oppressions and online communities: Examining the experiences of women of color in Xbox Live." Information, Communication & Society 15, no. 3 (2012): 411-428 @KishonnaGray
@SubanNurCooley Steele, Catherine Knight. "The digital barbershop: Blogs and online oral culture within the African American community." Social Media+ Society 2, no. 4 (2016): 2056305116683205
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@SubanNurCooley André Brock (2012) From the Blackhand Side: Twitter as a Cultural Conversation, Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, 56:4, 529-549
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Is support for black lives short-lived? Can movements that organize around events like the death of George Floyd lead to long-term change?

Last year, @EthanZ @rahulbot @fberm @allank_o & I published research on news & social media attention to black deaths, 2013-2016. Thread:
How does an ignored, systemic issue become newsworthy? Comm scholars sometimes describe news coverage as an ocean of overlapping "news waves." Some waves, like sports, have a natural cycle. What about issues like police violence that somehow don't get much coverage?
Kepplinger & Habermeier (1995) proposed that "key events" like an earthquake or a string of deaths can "trigger waves of reporting on similar events." To test this idea, they studied German news on deaths from earthquakes, AIDS, & traffic accidents—before & after key events.
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Some books that help me make sense of this moment.
The book "From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation" by @KeeangaYamahtta is indispensable for understanding the historical and present conditions that have led to the formation of the current resistance movements against State violence. bookshop.org/books/from-bla…
"Breathe: A Letter to My Sons" by @imaniperry is a magically written and brilliant analysis of what it means to come of age in a white supremacist nation. bookshop.org/books/breathe-…
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